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# Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Wounded Angel
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2018*

There is so much in to celebrate in this book - the artist's genius, his deep humanity, but above all, his fateful love affair with Arles and the South. Had he not moved to this sleepy Provençal town, it is difficult to imagine the global stature and the reverence which now surrounds his very name. Bernadette Murphy, resident for most of her life in the area, is uniquely qualified to uncover the hidden facts that underpin this book. A combination of superb linguistic skills, extraordinary investigative capabilities and incredible tenacity meant that apparently insignificant archival details, painstakingly amassed and sifted over long, long years, was pieced together to create a unique portrait of the artist as well as his environment 'in toto'. The scholarly lengths to which she has gone are awe-inspiring. This is art history of singular virtuosity, 99% perspiration, and 1% dazzling inspiration. Van Gogh is arguably the greatest and most popular artist of modern times - is anyone not enamoured? - and in this brilliant biographer he has at last found someone to do him justice. Murphy's irresistible tale illuminates how great art is created, and what drives the rare souls who live - and die - in its name.

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    Excellent and informative book on Van Gogh.
  

*by P***P on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2018*

I enjoyed this book immensely, and it was richly full of facts about Van Gogh and his life that I was previously unaware of, including something which should end for all time any speculation about exactly how much of his ear the poor man cut off. I won't spoil the book by saying exactly how that is revealed, but it is absolutely final and should end any further theories. However, there are a couple of areas which at the best are a little grey, and they are what have prevented me from giving the book five stars. The first area concerns the recipient of the ear - just who it was, and why Vincent gave her the rather sad remains of his ear. In my opinion the authors take on this is far too speculative and actually holds very little water.  I am inclined to believe that it was the person whom the author suggests it was, but her theory as to just why he gave her the ear, I am sorry to say I found quite frankly a bit ridiculous. And the second slightly grey area concerns the fairly recent proposition that Van Gogh was shot by someone else - I won't say murdered because I don't think that he was, not exactly, but I think the author could have given the idea a little more credence than to dismiss it utterly in little more than a couple of sentences. But, and it is a huge, positive but, apart from those two things the book is excellent and brings Van Gogh and his life in Arles vividly to life, and the people and places in his paintings take on a whole new perspective after reading it. I thoroughly recommend the book not only to anyone who is interested in Vincent Van Gogh, but to anyone who is interested in art generally, as well as to those people who would like a very convincing insight into Vincents 'madness', and who perhaps have more than a passing interest in mental issues, and just how terrible and debilitating a place 'madness' can be. Altogether a wonderful, and actually quite inspiring and life-affirming little book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Highly recommended
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2019*

Irrespective of the reason for a visit to the National Gallery, I always find myself in silent awe before two painters, two painters diametrically opposed and very different in style, life and painting - Canaletto and Van Gogh. Indeed, the parquet before the “Sunflowers” is the most worn section of the entire floor and any visit confirms why and how. Canaletto’s area has fewer visits but that only surprises me. Before vast Canaletto canvases taking in grand scenes of Venice, I find myself edging closer to look, yet again, at the minute and fine details create by a “lick” of paint. Van Gogh’s are usually more intimate and “limited in scale” but his energetic, emphatic and passionate “slashes” of paint capture life in quite another way but just as effectively.Murphy’s life near Arles seems to have inspired her interest in Van Gogh and driven her to become a highly determine, investigative “biographer”, so good, in fact, that other journalist, Jeremy Paxman, made a television programme with her but took the back seat in her travels to discover the truth ; although entitled “Van Gogh’s Ear”, it is the rest of him, his driven and riven life, his passions and his misunderstood, short, sad life she captures so effectively and in such well-researched and fine detail.She never quite answers the bigger question, “Why?” - no-one can - but she certainly creates the life in such a way as to be almost within touching distance of the answer. Of the six children born to Rev Van Gogh, two committed suicide, two died in asylum but there are aspects of Van Gogh’s death still in doubt.Murphy explores forensically all the elements which made up Van Gogh’s life from papers and letters from the time, to aerial photographs taken before and after WWII when large sections of Arles were destroyed, including the area in which he lived. Eventually she unearths a doctor’s note and drawing which illustrate unequivocally the true extent of the injury he inflicted on himself.The minute, pain-staking, clinical and detailed detection is in stark contrast to the passions about which she writes and which drove him but it goes a long way to explaining who he was, how he lived, who his friends were, his way of painting and why the parquet flooring in the National Gallery is so worn by his many modern admirers.

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